The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-22

day of the last session. just in time to draw my
pay for two years service, mileage and expenses
OF contest, amounting to something like 1000.
My service as a Congressman is immortal in one
respect / got more money for less actual serv-
ice than 10Y man who ever served his country
in the aRe capacity"
SOCIALISTS Anglo-maniacs and other undesir-
able elements of population are not numerous
in Indianapolis, but, for all that the American
idea" will bear nursing and encouragement here
as elsewhere. Patriotism is plant that thrives
under cultivation. but it has received compare
lively little attention OF late years and begins to
show evidences of weakness nd fabbiness. A
good eousing Fourth OF July celebration Of the
old-fashioned sort would do something to stimu-
late its growth The Fourth promises to be
considerable Of day this year in various parts
of the country. and Indianapolis should not be
behind the rest in concentrating the glorious
anniversary.
BETWEEN the hieh-license law they now have
and the law now in force which holds liquor
seller financially responsible for the crimes COM
mitted by his customers, the lot of the Michigan
saloon-k keeper does not promise to be a happy
one. A high license and few verdicts like that
in the Grand Rapids calling upon the liquor
dealer to pay So, 500 to the widow of a drunken
mans victim is likely to decrease the profits of
the business considerably.
THE late federal grand jury did its sworn duty,
and the members doubtless feel that they are
entitled to particular praise for such conduct;
but in view of the scandalous conduct of their
predecessors honest citizens feel like congratulate
ing the jurymen and themselves on the fact
which the former have demonstrated, that JUS
tice is not yet failure and the laws of civilza-
ton not yet played out.
THERE is nothing like having boom. An
accidental copy of the Minneapolis Mimi
Saturday Evening Spectator has reached this
office, and the most noticeable thing in it is that
eight of it's pages filled with solid notices of
foreclosures of mortgages. Thus speculation in
real estate bears fruit, and the crop of foreclos-
ures is gathered in by the thrifty lawyer.
SOME people are born dissatisfied. There are
the New York women now, a delegation of whom
are trying to compel the gas companies of that
city to manufacture an illuminating fluid free
from offensive odor. Indianapolis women would
be only too glad If they could get natural gas
smell and all, into thei- houses before next
winter
A BOSTON editor finds comfort in the fact that
in two years there will be immense crop of
huckleberries in the Cape Cod woods which have
Just been burned over. It Is difficult to turn
even the intellectual mind away from the con-
temptation of luxurious food; but not huckle-
berries little too rich for the Boston blood9
Two gentlemen at the Eastern market were
discussing the natural-gas question. when one
remarked: ut will cost $500 900 to put in a
pipe plant" Goodness gracious" exclaimed an
old lady from the country ''cost $500, 900 to put
in pie plant Out our way you can sow whole
township for less than that"
MEETING has been called at Montreal for
Wednesday to protest against the cowardly
course of Toronto Orangemen. Mr.. O'Brien has
been invited to attend. and has answered that he
will be present. if possible He doesn't seem to
scare worth a cent.
IT is reported that since her marriage Ella
Wheeler Wilcox gives to the poor all the money
she earns by writing poetry. This is all right il
she does not attach the gift that the poor
must read the poetry.
STREET cars in Mexico each provided with
two drivers and two conductors. If Mexican
laws were suddenly adopted in Indianapolis the
Citizens Street-railway Company would 60 out
and die.
FROM present indications, by the time Mr.
O'Brien leaves Canada he will be the best
mobbed man in two continents.
FRIDAY was a cold day for the unluckv thir-
teen. At least twelve of them felt no inclina-